.With the hull complete Liz turns the kayak over to finish the deck. There’s not a lot of work here, just cutting a shallow blind mortise into a deck beam, a few swipes to the block plane, and a couple lashings to attach the forward deck stringer. Aft deck stringers are omitted because we will be setting this kayak up to be used with our catamaran system.
Liz also added optional blocking for a drain plug which is a little tricky to mark and cut accurately, but not terribly difficult by woodworking standards.
There’s a couple things I didn’t show here, attaching the secondary stringers and the attachments for the footbraces.
Total time for this part of the project is about 4 hours.
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